Daily Archives: Jun 9, 2014

BANGALORE, INDIA: In the first quarter, mobile PCs declined 32 percent year-on-year due to a lack of government sales, finds a Gartner study — The combined desk-based and mobile PC market in India totalled nearly 1.9 million units in the first quarter of 2014, a 20.6 percent decrease over the first quarter of 2013, according to Gartner, Inc.

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China Mobile and China Publishing Group signed a strategic deal to enhance China Mobile’s mobile reading service. With the agreement, the two parties will work together on digital reading services, including content development, e-book business model exploration, operations, and marketing. Financial terms of the deal were not released.

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Many iPhone users in Australia and the US had accounts hacked recently because they used their iPhone accounts with some online services. Meanwhile, Vietnamese have been spared from the incident because few of them use these services. Ngo Tuan Anh, vice president of BKAV, a well known internet security expert, said that a series of online services had been attacked recently. From the affected accounts of the online services, the attackers logged into iCloud.com and hacked iPhones.

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TAIPEI, June 8 — Once a star of the intensely competitive smartphone sector, Taiwan’s HTC has seen its fortunes collapse in recent years — but the success of its latest model provides a glimmer of hope. The company started out as a contract smartphone manufacturer for major foreign players including Microsoft and only began developing its own brand of handsets in 2006.

Umeng, the Beijing-based mobile analytics firm, just released a report comparing smartphone usage in China’s first, second, and third-tier cities, and it’s an absolute must-read. Using data collected from over 230,000 apps on Android and iOS over a three-month period, the company looked for trends and discrepancies between the nation’s biggest metropolises and its smaller urban hubs.

GREATRESPONDER.COM – This was announced by the Big Blue Corporation at the start of this week that it has successfully started one state of the art data center in the Hong Kong for its SoftLayer cloud computing service providing division. The company further explained that this data center is being established in Asia Pacific region to strengthen its cloud computing business operations across the globe and especially in the Asia Pacific region.